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Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) released a draft of a cellphone privacy bill Monday that would require providers to tell subscribers if tracking software was installed on their mobile device. The Mobile Device Privacy Act (MDPA) is a response to the Car...

The controversy over Carrier IQ, a diagnostic program installed on millions of mobile phones all over the world, continues to heat up, especially after a class action lawsuit targeted the company together with several mobile manufacturers and carrier...

As the Carrier IQ scandal continues to heat up -- now with even more lawsuits -- the company has chosen to break its silence by speaking with the press. Dieter Bohn and Sean Hollister from The Verge managed to score a big interview with Carrier IQ VP...

As controversy continues to swirl around Carrier IQ, which stores data and sends it to cellphone service providers, Apple has confirmed that it stopped supporting the software in iPhones -- and will remove it completely from future iPhone software. "...

The Carrier IQ controversy is raging on, with many users flabbergasted by the fact that an app they cannot control or uninstall may be recording their keystrokes and accessing their messages and other data. It's hard to even find out if your phone ha...

There's a storm of controversy flaring up over Carrier IQ, cellphone software that logs user activity and relays at least some of that information to wireless carriers. The carriers say they'll use that data to improve their networks. But anything th...

Carrier IQ, a diagnostic tool installed in millions of smartphones all over the world, is gathering a lot of info about your activity - possibly even recording keystrokes, content of SMS messages and more - and sending it to a third party. It's prese...

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